Tag: Data and analytics
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Why I recommend my clients NOT use KSQL and Kafka Streams
Posted on October 24, 2019, Level beginner Resource Length medium
An article by Jesse Anderson. He recommends his clients not use Kafka Streams because it lacks checkpointing. Kafka Streams also lacks and only approximates a shuffle sort. KSQL sits on top of Kafka Streams and so it inherits all of these problems and then some more.
Tags data-and-analytics architecture-and-apis
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Firebase: What is atomicity & how to accurately increment/decrement values in cloud Firestore
Posted on October 22, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length short
In computer science, ACID (Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability) is a set of properties of database transactions intended to guarantee validity even in the event of errors, connection issues, power failure, and etc. An article by Jeff Lewis about atomicity in Firebase.
Tags data-and-analytics security-and-privacy cloud-and-infrastructure product-and-design frontend-and-mobile
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Building a distributed time-series database on PostgreSQL
Posted on October 18, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length long
TimescaleDB, a time-series database on PostgreSQL, has been production-ready for over two years, with millions of downloads and production deployments worldwide. Authors publicly shared their design, plans, and benchmarks for the distributed version of TimescaleDB. By Mike Freedman and Erik Nordström.
Tags data-and-analytics architecture-and-apis software-engineering
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6 step field guide for building Machine Learning projects
Posted on September 30, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Daniel Bourke is author of this piece about what to do if you have data and want to know how you can use machine learning with it.
Tags data-and-analytics miscellaneous
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Deep learning with Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems
Posted on September 26, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Goku Mohandas wrote this comprehensive look at recent machine learning advancements in health. There exists source of data, beyond imaging studies, that can change the way we approach health: the electronic health record (EHR).
Tags data-and-analytics ai-and-machine-learning
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Full text search with Node.js and ElasticSearch on Docker
Posted on September 18, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length long
An article by Michele Riva about building the search engine for simple REST API using Node.js and ElasticSearch. ElasticSearch is a search engine server built on top of Lucene with an amazing distributed-architecture support.
Tags business-and-emerging-tech cloud-and-infrastructure data-and-analytics frontend-and-mobile
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Tour of Akka Typed: Message Adapters, Ask Pattern and Actor Discovery
Posted on September 17, 2019, Level advanced Resource Length medium
An article in series by Manuel Bernhardt in which he explores the basics of the Akka Typed API, why it was created and what are its benefits in comparison to the classic Actor API, how to build typed actor systems via protocols and behaviors and how to create typed actors.
Tags architecture-and-apis backend-development software-engineering data-and-analytics
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Managing hundreds of millions of orders with Table Store
Posted on September 16, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
This article discusses how Table Store can help you store and manage massive amounts of data by using a fictional e-commerce platform as an example.
Tags backend-development data-and-analytics software-engineering how-to cloud-and-infrastructure
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Using graph processing for Kafka Stream visualizations
Posted on September 9, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Article by David Allen. Focused on Graph processing for Kafka Stream visualizations. Apache Kafka® is great when one needs to dealing with streams, allowing you to conveniently look at streams as tables. Stream processing engines like KSQL furthermore give you the ability to manipulate all of this fluently.
Tags data-and-analytics
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Pytorch vs. Tensorflow: which framework is best for your deep learning project?
Posted on September 7, 2019, Level beginner Resource Length long
Written by Vihar Kurama. Author takes a look at two popular frameworks and compares them: PyTorch vs. TensorFlow.
Tags data-and-analytics software-engineering backend-development miscellaneous
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Microsoft IoT Signals research report on state of IoT adoption
Posted on August 18, 2019, Level beginner Resource Length short
Microsoft recently announced IoT Signals, a new research report on the IoT landscape globally. Microsoft surveyed over 3,000 IoT decision-makers in enterprise organizations in order to give a view of the IoT ecosystem, with adoption rates, related technology trends, challenges, and benefits of IoT.
Tags data-and-analytics business-and-emerging-tech cloud-and-infrastructure
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Bias Variance decompositions using XGBoost
Posted on August 17, 2019, Level beginner Resource Length long
This blog dives into a theoretical machine learning concept called the bias-variance decomposition. This decomposition is a method which examines the expected generalization error for a given learning algorithm and a given data source. This helps us understand various questions about model. Written by RAPIDS.
Tags ai-and-machine-learning data-and-analytics software-engineering